Lightroom Tip and Seminar Contest Winners

Happy Friday everyone. I’m in Portland, Oregon right now getting ready to head up to Seattle. I’ll probably be shooting at Olympic National Park this weekend so if you’ve got any great photo spots, I’d sure appreciate it. Anyway, I figured I’d close up the week with a tip as well as post the winners who got a free ticket to my Kelby Training Lightroom 4 Live seminar later this month.

Okay, first… the tip. This one is for spot removal and making it more efficient in Lightroom. Instead of zooming in and dragging your cursor around looking for spots in your photo, you can help Lightroom search section by section to make sure you don’t miss any areas. First, zoom in to your photo to 100%. Then go to the Navigator panel (top left of Lightroom) and place the square in the top left of your photo (like you see below).

Now…ready for the cool part? Just press your page-down key. Lightroom will automatically move your little zoomed-in square to the next section below so you can check that area for spots. Press it again and it keeps going down. When it hits the bottom of the photo it’ll automatically shoot right up to the top of the next section of your photo and keep going. You gotta give it a try to see it in action but it works great.

Matt is the full-time Director of Education for Kelby Media Group and a Tampa-based photographer. He's the Editor-in-Chief of Lightroom Magazine, the lead instructor on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom LIVE Seminar Tour and author of several best-selling Photoshop books. Matt also hosts the world's top Lightroom blog, LightroomKillerTips.com, where he's built up a massive library of Lightroom videos, presets and tips. In addition to teaching Photoshop, Lightroom and photography seminars around the world, he's an instructor at Photoshop World and one of the full-time staff writers for Photoshop User Magazine.

32 Comments

Dee

April 20, 2012

Another way to get to the top left of your zoomed in image when in grid view is to press: Spacebar, Spacebar, and Home key. The first Spacebar press switches to Loupe view, the second Spacebar press zooms in and the Home key jumps to the top left of the zoomed image. Good for you keyboard types.

You can also use the End key to jump to the bottom right of the zoomed in image.

Thanks for the awesome tip Matt! And great job on The Grid too. I look forward to each new episode as it keeps us in touch with what’s going on with photography.

Hi Matt!
I’m excited that you are bringing the LR4 tour to Lansing, MI. Wondered when registration will be open for it? Or if it will need to be moved from the date you had posted since you are doing the Google+ conference in SF the same week.
Thanks!

We loved the Olympic Peninsula when we visited. Two highlights were Neah Bay (zillions of eagles) and from there, Cape Loop Road to 48.38491, -124.71577. Park there and walk the cape trail to “hole in the wall”. At the end of the trail there’s a gazebo with a great view and you’ll be at the north western most point in the continental US.

If you get down to Forks, make sure you see the driftwood by 2nd beach and grab a meal at Klaloch

There are also ruins of a WWII artillery emplacement (created to defend against a Japanese attack on the west coast). There might be some UrbEx opportunities there.

Gorgeous weather expected this weekend in western WA. You do know the OP is huge, right? Do you have time for that? And it’s still mostly snow covered up in the mountains. Assuming you are looking for landscapes, right? So, maybe some beaches? Dungeness Spit could be interesting. Shi Shi beach would be the bomb–but you are talking about a 5 mile hike into there and most likely spending the night if you want to catch the great sunsets and wonderful light at that time of day. Hurricane Ridge road is open in the winter now, but you will need 4WD and tire chains in the vehicle as a backup–and you’d probably want to take snowshoes up there if you really want to shoot anything worth shooting. I think I’d stick to the beaches for this trip. Do Shi Shi (preferably at sunset) and maybe spend some time shooting some of the people and places in Neah Bay on your way in. Or stop at Dungeness for a shorter trip and do that unique land form and maybe the light house there.

One of my very favorite places on the Olympic Peninsula is Shi Shi Beach. A mile (or so) boardwalk built by the Makah Tribe leads you to a beautiful bay on the coast with awesome seastacks and tide pools.